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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1966
Page
9
Tom Tiede argues the Vietnam War may end without dramatic action as both sides show restraint while the Pentagon weighs a decade more of conflict. He notes unlikely U.S. withdrawal or decisive victory, with escalation and propaganda shaping expectations and casualties rising.
The Carbondale Board of Appeals will hear three requests for additions to existing structures at 7 p.m. in City Hall. Dorothy Davies seeks a 6 by 27 foot home addition at 702 Taylor Drive. Peter Munch requests a front yard variance for a carport at 901 S Johnson St. Eva Taggart asks for a side yard variance to add a porch at 311 W Elm St. If denied, the appeal may go to the Circuit Court.
The piece weighs three possible outcomes in Vietnam: ally pressure ending hostilities, enemy collapse due to losses, or a negotiated pause. It notes 140000 more U.S. troops by 1967, Viet Cong gains, desertions, and the risk that a pause would simply restart fighting later.
Crab Orchard Job Corps Center holds an open house at 1 p.m. Sunday to mark its first anniversary with tours of completed projects slide presentations of work and academic programs and talks by center manager L. A. Mehrhoff and director Woodrow Austin. The public is invited.
Three members led by Chairman James Gilmore will join a two day training session sponsored by the state Department of Revenue in Springfield next week. W. W. Kelly and James Lawder also accompany Gillmore with Lewis Adkins potentially attending as a new member. The group plans several conferences during the June 29 30 meeting while Williamson County holds its annual session June 28 under a commission form of government making state meeting attendance unlikely.
A reunion for Carbondale Community High School Class of 1940 runs 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday with a bus tour boat rides at Crab Orchard Lake a social hour and dinner at the Carbondale Elks Club Headquarters at the Carbondale Community Center Elm Street Some 65 reservations have been received from alumni per Mrs Orlen Wallace reunion committee
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